Atomic Transactions: In Concurrent and Distributed Systems
Lynch, Nancy A. / Merritt, Michael / Weihl, William E. This book develops a theory for transactions that provides practical solutions for system developers, focusing on the interface between the user and the database that executes transactions. Atomic transactions are a useful abstraction for programming concurrent and distributed data processing systems. Presents many important algorithms which provide maximum concurrency for transaction processing without sacrificing data integrity. The authors ...